[Music] Radio 2 best albums of the 80’s

[Uh_huh_him]

10 you say?
this will take a while, but without having to think these 4 will always make the list


Closer
8 Legged Groove Machine
Wild Planet
Doolittle


Edit

Mind Bomb & Blue Sunshine takes it up to 6

Right then.... after some considerable thought.......

1. Joy Division........................Closer
2, The Glove...........................Blue Sunshine
3. The The..............................Mind Bomb
4. Pixies..................................Doolittle
5, The Wonderstuff.................8 Legged Groove Machine
6. The B52s............................Wild Planet
7. The Beat.............................I Just Can't Stop it
8. The Stone Roses...............The Stone Roses
9. Wall of Voodoo...................Dark Continent
10 Psychedelic Furs................Forever Now

 

[Randy McNob]

80s you say?

Blue Bell Knoll -Cocteau Twins
Laughing Stock -Talk Talk
Ocean Rain -Echo & The Bunnymen
Throwing Muses -Throwing Muses
Isn't Anything - My Bloody Valentine
Born Sandy Devotional - The Triffids
The Dreaming - Kate Bush
Remain in Light - Talking Heads
16 Lover's Lane - The Go Betweens
Rock and Roll - The Mekons

plus everything by REM, The Fall, Husker Du, Elvis Costello & The Cure

Laughing stock was 90's, you mean Spirit of Eden?

 

[Guinness Boy]

Cause it's basically a 90's record, that just happened to be released in the 80s.

So ahead of its time then

For some the 80s are simply big hair, Duran Duran, Kylie and Rubiks Cubes but for me the sound of Manchester is all over the whole decade. Factory were brilliant at the start of the decade and at the end. The Roses are merely a one album by-product of that scene.

 

[JamesAndTheGiantHead]

No Pixies, no party.

 

[BN9 BHA]

I don't think a lot of what I've seen on this thread were even the artistes' best '80s albums and that several had passed their peak by:


Dire Straits Brothers in Arms. Definitely not. Making Movies.

Love Over Gold is also far better than Brothers In Arms

Agree with you both here.
Someone I know was recently banging on about how good Brothers in Arms is, I asked if she had heard Love Over Gold or Making Movies as they are much better, and I really didn’t like BIA when it came out, I just got a very blank look.

 

[Pevenseagull]

Laughing stock was 90's, you mean Spirit of Eden?

oops, in that case Pieter Nooten & Michael Brook 'Sleeps With The Fishes' or David Sylvian 'Secrets Of The Beehive'

 

[BN9 BHA]

Bob Marley & The Wailers - Uprising.

 

[beardy gull]

Steve McQueen by Prefab Sprout.
Bizarro by The Wedding Present.

 

[BN9 BHA]

LLf beat me to it but this would be there for me for starters

That's still on my play list as well . . . was thinking 79, but it is just 1980 ? best thing they ever did!

I had this on vinyl back in the 80s, only added it to my iTunes last week along with Present Arms. Just giving Signing Off a listen now.

 

[Stat Brother]

If NSC owned a music shop




Actually scratch that, too many customers

If NSC owned a music shop:-


(language warning)

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Just made a 'short' list, just or artists, probably around 50, and accidentally deleted it

Probably for the best.

 

[Weststander]

ABC - The Lexicon of Love
Altered Images - Happy Birthday
Altered Images - Pinky Blue
Altered Images - Bite
Big Country - The Crossing (an incredible gig at The Suite)
The Beautiful South - Welcome to the Beautiful South
The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
Danse Society - Seduction
Enya - Watermark
Erasure - Wild!
The Human League - Dare
The Human League - Travelogue (the original HL line up)
The Jam - Sound Effects
Joy Division - Closer
Kid Creole & The Coconuts - Tropical Gangsters
Madonna - Holiday
New Order - Movement
New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies
New Order - Technique
OMD - Organisation
OMD - Architecture & Morality
Roxy Music - Flesh & Blood
Simple Minds - New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Soft Cell - Non Stop Erotic Cabaret
Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston

 

[GT49er]

Just made a 'short' list, just or artists, probably around 50, and accidentally deleted it

Probably for the best.

I bought (and by definition therefore still have) quite a few of the albums listed on this thread. To be honest, I'm struggling to think of any that I feel any urge to turn on the record player for; I'm not sure I still like any of them much! The Damned, Joe Jackson and The Smithereens did some good stuff, but beyond that I'm struggling!

 

[Icy Gull]

I bought (and by definition therefore still have) quite a few of the albums listed on this thread. To be honest, I'm struggling to think of any that I feel any urge to turn on the record player for; I'm not sure I still like any of them much! The Damned, Joe Jackson and The Smithereens did some good stuff, but beyond that I'm struggling!

Willing to bet that you don’t feel the same way about 70’s albums

 

[GT49er]

Willing to bet that you don’t feel the same way about 70’s albums

If you can find somebody to take that bet, put your house on it!

 

[Eric Potts]

If NSC owned a music shop




Actually scratch that, too many customers

If NSC owned a music shop:-


(language warning)

Loved the book. The film , less so , but still good

 

[Ooh it’s a corner]

Loved this when it first came out - and do still. Their best imo

 

[BN9 BHA]

Sandinista! - The Clash
I didn’t really like this album in the 80s, and it’s not my favourite by The Clash, but really got into this recently.

 

[Crispy Ambulance]

Sandinista! - The Clash
I didn’t really like this album in the 80s, and it’s not my favourite by The Clash, but really got into this recently.

There's a lot of experimental rubbish/filler on there in amongst some absolute gems (Somebody Got Murdered, Police on my back, Charlie Don't Surf and - I know HWT likes this obscure one as do I - Lose This Skin with Tymon Dogg on vocals) but it should never have been a triple album. They were in a strange place at the time (how do you follow the masterpiece that was London Calling?).

 

[BN9 BHA]

There's a lot of experimental rubbish/filler on there in amongst some absolute gems (Somebody Got Murdered, Police on my back, Charlie Don't Surf and - I know HWT likes this obscure one as do I - Lose This Skin with Tymon Dogg on vocals) but it should never have been a triple album. They were in a strange place at the time (how do you follow the masterpiece that was London Calling?).

Got to agree with all of this.
Police on my back is playing as I post this, brilliant track, I also really like the reggae stuff, One More Time and One More Dub.